A diesel for Reno!

I bet they have a special security detail tasked with eliminating vistors
who call these "motors".

"Rich S." wrote in message
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http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/

Rich "Mo' Powah" S.

Ass-uming a single engine, chain-driven, counter-rotating prop config... Your
2-bladed wooden props would only be 13.25 miles in diameter... each. Now
assume a plane of appropriate size/design and you have a Wright Flyer with a 66
mile wide wingspan. Or 1452 square miles of wing area...

maybe I'll stick to gliders...

Harry

On 16 Mar 2004 18:38:03 GMT,
(Wright1902Glider) wrote:

:Ass-uming a single engine, chain-driven, counter-rotating prop config... Your
:2-bladed wooden props would only be 13.25 miles in diameter... each.

What RPM would they turn? We have to keep tip speed under mach.

"Richard Riley" wrote in message
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On 16 Mar 2004 18:38:03 GMT,
(Wright1902Glider) wrote:

:Ass-uming a single engine, chain-driven, counter-rotating prop config...
Your
:2-bladed wooden props would only be 13.25 miles in diameter... each.

What RPM would they turn? We have to keep tip speed under mach.

I think the tip speed would under the visible spectrum.

You'd have to de-forest the entire state of Washington to build it.

Prop RPM? Oh, that's an easy one... 330-335. Everybody knows that one...

Boy... go get my chainsaw and a bottle of glue.

Harry

On 25 Mar 2004 18:15:33 GMT,
(Wright1902Glider) wrote:

:Prop RPM? Oh, that's an easy one... 330-335. Everybody knows that one...

Now that can't be right...

If the prop is 13.25 miles in diameter, the tip distance traveled is
41.6 miles per revolution. Mach at 13.25 miles altitude is 662 mph.
So you can only do a max of 16 revolutions per hour, or .26 RPM, and
keep the tips under mach, assuming no forward air speed.

(Is 330-335 what the original flyer was running?)